SPRINGFIELD -- They played video games, rebuilt old cars and rumbled through the woods on all-terrain vehicles, churning up clouds of mud.

As father and son, Michael and Corey Lind of Ludlow were so close they stood together at the altar when Michael Lind was married for a second time.

“He was my best man,” Michael Lind said Thursday in Hampden Superior Court, testifying in a lawsuit seeking $15 million in damages from Domino’s Inc. for his son’s death in 2007 while delivering a pizza in Springfield.

Glancing at a blown-up photograph presented by lawyer John J. Egan, Lind said: “That’s us in the church.”

In the third day of testimony in Hampden Superior Court, Lind’s mother also took the witness stand to convey to the 12-person jury the toll of her son’s death. “My son’s death is continual, recurring ... every day of my life,” said Lisa Bishop, 49, of Chicopee.

“I used to count the years that he was alive, and now I count the years that he’s been dead,” she added.

In December 2007 Lind, 20, was lured to a fake address to deliver a pizza, then kidnapped and stabbed to death. Alex Morales, 30, formerly of Springfield, was convicted of first degree murder in 2009 and given a life sentence with no chance of parole.

According to testimony earlier in the trial, Morales had a fight with his girlfriend, who lived in the Sixteen Acres section. Needing a ride back home to the North End, he decided to call Domino’s, then steal the car when the driver arrived.

Instead of releasing Lind, as he initially promised, Morales forced him into the trunk and drove to a secluded hillside in Palmer. There, he repeatedly slashed Lind’s wrists and throat before strangling him.

During her testimony, Bishop said job safety was an important concern for Lind when he signed on with Domino’s in 2007; he quit a previous job with a Chicopee towing company after an unhappy motorist put a shotgun to his head, she said.

“I said I want you to quit that job - and he did, the next day,” she added.

After being hired at the Domino’s franchise at 624 Boston Road, Lind assured his mother the job was not risky. “He said they take care of their team members,” she said.

Following the parent’s testimony, the plaintiffs rested its case; the defense will call witnesses Friday, with closing arguments expected Monday.

The parents said they were divorced more than a decade ago, but shared custody of their son and a daughter.

In their lawsuit, they accuse the Michigan-based pizza chain of failing to adopt adequate safety measures to protect delivery drivers.

Also testifying Thursday was Donald Green, a security consultant for the plaintiffs.

Green outlined his background, which includes consulting with large companies to give them a security plan and monitor it.

He listed a number of deficiencies he found while reviewing the Springfield Domino’s location. He said some combination of safety measures -- not necessarily all -- should have been used.

Delivery people were not provided any alarm device, even a simple whistle a person could use to try to get help or scare off an assailant, according to Green, who added that Domino’s forbids employees to carry weapons.

Giving delivery workers mace or pepper spray and training them to use it would at least provide some defense, Green said.

Also, there should be a policy that after a driver is gone for a certain amount of time, especially if a call was suspicious, the manager should call 911, he said.